Shaka Bra! Get Pictures!

enhances your blogg.

I like it. As foa da parking!

Hero!

Lynn

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_parking

According to this site:

http://www.seattle.gov/transportation/parking/parkingterms.htm

the proper phrase for diagonal stalls is “Angle Parking”.

I am willing to bet that there is technical jargon for all of that in the parking lot design and construction business. But I will not google to find it. I refuse. I’m not that obsessive. Really. I won’t.

As for wedging yourself in, well, that’s where having a convertible top would come in really handy. Or in this car, I could probably fold down the rear seat backs, pop open the trunk, and crawl out. Undignified but effective.

Anyway, whatever you want to call it, I’m proud of that. You might think that’s a pretty weird thing to be proud of until you’ve seen parking stalls in my office parking structure.

Of course, actually trying to get the doors open once you’re wedged between two cars with about 2″ on either side is usually more challenging than parking.

I try to make sure nobody is in the other cars when I’m doing so, though. Once I kissed the front car and rocked it ever so slightly — and the guy who’d been dozing in his reclined seat woke up and gave me hell. Oops.

And Ryan, this is what happens when you’ve just gotten a new phone and are getting used to the idea that now you’re carrying a camera around everywhere. I guess it is a little overboard, huh.

That is freaking amazing.

Living in SF with parking spots at a premium, this skill of yours would be prized beyond compare.

I do okay if I don’t think about it – although there was this one time where my wife and brother-in-law were in hysterics on the sidewalk watching my attempts – which I claimed increased the stress level and made it that much more difficult.